SCCM

Easily install and update apps on your home PC with Patch My PC Home Updater

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My colleagues and I oversee numerous applications across our 6,000 managed workstations. Keeping these applications up-to-date is critical, as 70% of successful malware attacks target outdated vulnerabilities. Security updates occur monthly, sometimes even more frequently. Repackaging applications for managed devices is time-consuming, so we adopted Patch My PC years ago.
Patch My Pc enables us to save countless hours by automating the patching process for many applications installed on our workstations managed by Configuration manager or Intune. But what about your personal owned Windows devices?

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Error 0X800F0954 installing Feature on demand like Basic typing, handwriting, text-to-speech, etc.

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Employees using our managed workstations have recently encountered issues installing Windows 11 language packs FOD. While the language packs install without a hitch, additional features such as Basic typing, handwriting, and text-to-speech fail to install across all attempted languages. In this post I will explain the cause of the problem and provide a solution.

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Great tool to change MECM content path locations

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Just a tip for a really useful tool. Our storage department was planning a storage migration so the content share used for applications, packages, etc in MECM (SCCM) changed. We already used a cname to point to the content share for a lot of objects but not for all of them. So I was looking for a tool to change content paths to the correct cname share in MECM.

This tool does the job! I can really recommend it!

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Fix 7-zip vulnerability help file

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A vulnerability was found in 7-Zip 21.07 that can be exploited through the 7-Zip Help file. This post will show how to remediate this vulnerability by deleting the 7-zip.chm file. In this post I will show you 2 ways you can accomplish this:
With a MECM (SCCM) configuration item deployment and with Intune script. In this post I will remediate the 7-zip (all versions) 64 bits version with MECM, and only the 21.07 (32 and 64 bits) version with Intune.

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Upgrade to MECM version 2203

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Update 2203 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) is now available. In this post I will show all the steps you have to take to upgrade your current MECM installation. To install MECM 2203 as an update, you must have MECM version 2010 or later installed. If you check for updates in your console and the update is not available this post also shows how to get it using the early update ring script. I personally would not install the new version when it still is in the early ring on your production environment but it would be suited for a lab or test environment. When the new version is available in the production ring usually there is an hotfix available already so that would be a good version to install on your MECM production.

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